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Known issues

Unresolved known issues

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Resolved known issues

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Known Issues

Title Category Resolutionsort descending Description Posted Updated
Rolling reboots on owens and pitzer starting 18 Aug 2021 Batch, Connectivity, Maintenance Resolved

We will have rolling reboots of Owens and Pitzer cluster, including login and compute nodes, starting from 9am on August 18, 2021. The rolling reboot is for urgent security updates.

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5 years 1 month ago 5 years 1 week ago
Error when downloading SRA data on computing nodes Owens, Pitzer, Software Resolved
(workaround)

NCBI blocks any connection from computing nodes because they are behind firewalls. Thus OSC users cannot use SRA tools to download data "on-the-fly" at runtime on computing nodes, e.g. 'fastq-dump...

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7 years 1 month ago 1 year 4 months ago
starccm/15.02.007 with intelmpi after Mar 22, 2022 Resolved
(workaround)

STAR-CCM+ 15.02.007 and 15.02.007-mixed with intelMPI would fail on multiple node jobs after the downtime on Mar 22, 2022. Please use openmpi instead. You can find more...

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4 years 5 months ago 1 year 4 months ago
VASP job with Out-of-Memory crashes compute node(s) Batch, Owens, Software Resolved
(workaround)

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9 years 4 months ago 1 year 4 months ago
GPFS filesystem Problem on Oct 24 2019 filesystem Resolved

Updated on 4:45 PM Oct 24, 2019

The issue is fixed. GPFS filesystems and OnDemand are back. 

Original Post

We are having issues with GPFS filesystem...

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6 years 10 months ago 6 years 10 months ago
MVAPICH 3.0 hang due to PMI mismatch with Slurm Software Resolved
(workaround)

Applications such as Quantum ESPRESSO, LAMMPS, and NWChem experienced hangs with MVAPICH 3.0 due to a PMI mismatch. MVAPICH 3.0 was built with PMI-1, while newer Slurm versions on RHEL 9...

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11 months 2 weeks ago 4 months 6 days ago
Slurm on Pitzer is offline Resolved

The Slurm scheduler for Pitzer is currently offline. We are working with the vendor for the fix. Sorry for the inconvenience.

2 years 6 months ago 2 years 6 months ago
Emergency InfiniBand Shutdown (All systems) Network Resolved

We have returned to service. It appears that we have resolved the networking issues enough to allow jobs to run safely. We will continue working with our vendors to fix any remaining hardware...

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12 years 1 month ago 12 years 1 month ago
LS-DYNA License problems on all clusters Software Resolved

We are experiencing problems with the LS-DYNA license server. We will resume working on restoring access to this software on October 24th, 2018.

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It has been fixed and working...

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7 years 10 months ago 7 years 10 months ago
Ondemand error when terminating interactive app OnDemand Resolved
(workaround)

When trying to delete an interactive session through OnDemand, you may receive an error page about 'No such file'. This can be disregarded. Simply navigate back to the interactive sessions page...

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5 years 9 months ago 4 years 5 months ago

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